Anna Girling
PhD in English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: s1252472@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisor:
Background
I have an MA in English and Modern History from the University of St. Andrews and an MA in English Literature from York University in Toronto.
I am Member-at-Large on the Executve Board of the Edith Wharton Society (https://edithwhartonsociety.wordpress.com), Postgraduate Representative on the Advisory Council of the Institute of English Studies (https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/), and part of the organising committee for Transatlantic Literary Women (https://transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/). I am happy to be contacted in relation to any of these roles - as well as about my own research.
Undergraduate teaching
English Literature 2
I am also a mentor for the online course, How to Read a Novel: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/how-to-read-a-novel/
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‘More than a muse: Reassessing the legacy of Nancy Cunard.’ (https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/more-than-a-muse-nancy-cunard/) Commentary section, Times Literary Supplement, 11 January 2019: 14-16.
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‘A Lost Night: A newly discovered story by Nancy Cunard’ (ed.). (https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/a-lost-night-cunard-story/) Times Literary Supplement, 11 January 2019: 16.
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‘Feminize Your Archives!’ Review of Women in the Archives (conference), The Modernist Review, 1:1 (October 2018). (https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/conference-review-feminize-your-archives-women-in-the-archives/)
- Review of Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism, edited by Meredith Goldsmith and Emily Orlando, Edith Wharton Review, 33:2 (2017): 393-398. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5325/editwharrevi.33.2.0393.pdf)
- 'Ramkrishna Mukherjee and Frank Girling: Marxist Anthropology and McCarthyism in the 1950s'. Journal of the Asiatic Society: Papers in Honour of Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee (2017): 13-30.
- '“Comedy of Errors”: The Correspondence between Edith Wharton and John Murray in the National Library of Scotland.' (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/editwharrevi.32.1-2.0061) Edith Wharton Review 32:1-2 (2016): 61-79.
- ‘Michael Arlen,’ ‘Nella Larsen.’ The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (https://www.rem.routledge.com/) (Ed. Stephen Ross). (2016).
- '"Agrope Among Alien Forces": Alchemical Transformations and Capitalist Transactions in Edith Wharton's The Touchstone'. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/editwharrevi.31.1-2.0074) Edith Wharton Review 31:1-2 (2015): 74-87. (winner of the Edith Wharton Society Beginning Scholar Prize).
- 'The touch of a vanished hand – Edith Wharton's fraught relationship with John Murray.' (http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/the-touch-of-a-vanished-hand/) Commentary section, Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 2015: 13-15.
I also occasionally write reviews for the Times Literary Supplement (http://www.the-tls.co.uk/?s=anna+girling).
Conferences
- 'Queer Time, Family Time and "Real Life" in The Age of Innocence', Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, January 2019.
- Organiser (for Transatlantic Literary Women): 'Women in the Archives', National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 25 September 2018.
- Panel organiser: ‘Edith Wharton’s Protest Novel? Rethinking The Fruit of the Tree’; Paper: ‘Family Money: Wealth, philanthropy and “inherited obligations” in The Fruit of the Tree’; European and British Associations of American Studies, King’s College London, University College London and the British Library, April 2018.
- ‘Intellectual Vagrants and Mechanical Readers: The Promise of Tautological Value in The House of Mirth and “The Vice of Reading”’, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, July 2017.
- “Quibbles and compromises and moral subtleties”: casuistry and anti-Catholicism in Edith Wharton’s early career’, British Association of American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, April 2017.
- '"Quibbles and compromises and moral subtleties": Casuistry and Anti-Catholicism in Edith Wharton's "That Good May Come"., Wharton in Washington (Edith Wharton Society Conference), Washington, DC, June 2016.
- "The gift you can't escape": debt and the (im)possibility of redemption in Edith Wharton's The Touchstone,' American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, May 2015.
- ‘“Agrope among alien forces”: alchemical transformations and capitalist transactions in Edith Wharton’s The Touchstone’, Scottish Association for the Study of America Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, March 2015.
- ‘The Point is to (Ex)Change It: Exchange, value and desire in The House of Mirth’, Edith Wharton and The Custom of the Country: Centennial Reappraisals (An Edith Wharton International Symposium), Liverpool Hope University, August 2013.
- ‘Sheep and dogs and the Scotch psychic sense: Mackenzie King’s genealogical excursions’, William Lyon Mackenzie King: Unsung Hero?, British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) History and Politics Group Conference, University College London (UCL) Institute of the Americas, July 2013.
- ‘Epilepsy as Illness, Blindness as Metaphor: Epileptic and Mis(sing)representation’, International Comics and Graphic Novel and International Bande Dessinée Society Joint Conference, University of Glasgow and University of Dundee, June 2013.
- ‘“Boy Fenwick of Careless-Days-Before-The-War”: Remembering (the) Boy and Forgetting the War in Michael Arlen’s The Green Hat’. Alternative Modernisms, University of Cardiff, May 2013.
- ‘Blind Hope: The Day of the Locust and the Promise of Dystopia’. The Future Ain't What It Used To Be: Interactions of Past, Present and Future in Literature and Visual Media, University of Dundee, June 2009.
Invited talks
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‘Edith McWharton? Edith Wharton in Scotland’s Archives,’ University of Glasgow, Transatlantic Literary Women Edith Wharton Workshop, October 2017.
- ‘“Maddened with War”: Nancy Cunard and the First World War’, Transatlantic Women in the Trenches, Pollok Park, Glasgow (public lecture as part of the Cultural Connections: Transatlantic Literary Women project), April 2017.